Nuclear waste is largely misunderstood, thanks to the Cold War and war movies. However, even if nuclear energy is safer than ...

Like the radioactive waste itself, some bad ideas won’t disappear. Southeast Utah is in the crosshairs once again, aided by a ...

The heat produced by the radioactive waste strikes you when you enter the storage site of Ontario Power Generation at the ...

Two projects developing new nuclear fuel transmutation technologies received $10 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy. Both of these ...

Nuclear waste remains a major environmental hazard due to its long-lasting radioactivity, which can persist for thousands of years. However, new research by University of Sharjah scientists, published ...

Scientists in the US have come up with a new molten-salt accelerator system that can potentially change the future of fusion energy by producing commercial tritium from nuclear waste. Led by Terence ...

Researchers review methods that repurpose nuclear waste to generate hydrogen, aiming to lower storage needs and support cleaner energy production. Hydrogen is currently recognized as a promising clean ...

Non-fuel radioactive waste is loaded into a rail car for delivery to a facility in Texas at the site of the former Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon on Oct. 10, 2023. File photo by Glenn ...

Will nuclear waste travel all the way from Ontario, Canada to a site about an hour drive from Salt Lake City? An interstate panel may consider a resolution later this month on whether to allow ...

The debate is between those who see a path to making nuclear waste clean again and those who advocate a more cautious approach. An ancient Greek saying warns us that “there is no such thing as a free ...

Nuclear energy is often regarded as the cleanest power source on Earth. Unlike coal or gas, nuclear power plants don't release smoke and other contaminants into the air. They produce massive amounts ...

More than a decade after Wisconsin's Kewaunee Power Station shut down, developers are seeking approval to bring the facility back online — a move that has many locals both hopeful and cautious. The ...